The Wrong Child by Barry Gornell

Author:Barry Gornell [Gornell, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409171836
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2017-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

Deborah sat at the base of the tree, her back against the trunk as she chewed her way through the fruit sweets that had been Jenny’s favourites. Jenny wouldn’t eat them. Looking at the nine silver boats she held in her hand, she knew that now, nobody would. He had left them in the shelter of a trough between two roots of the Jenny-tree. How long ago, she could only guess. Maybe he’d sat where she sat, enjoying the same citrus tang that made her salivate. Now that the feeling of invasion had passed, she was curious as to what he would have thought. She had no exclusive claim on this tree, this patch of land, or the feelings evoked by it. Deborah felt calmer. She was letting go.

In the classroom glade, the grave was obvious. The mound was smooth and the grass slippery and bruised. The spade looked like an invitation to dig him back up again, so she cast it aside. She used the boats to make a small cross on the mound, five down – four across. She crossed herself, though did not pray, as if that would be going too far, too quickly.

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